TotalEnergies has signed a second contract with LyondellBasell to supply a combined 358 MW of green electricity sourced from its utility-scale Cottonwood Bayou and Brazoria Solar farms in Texas.
Through the newly signed 15-year Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA), LyondellBasell will offtake 163 MW from TotalEnergies’ Brazoria Solar farm, which has a capacity of 325 MW and a commercial start-up planned for end of 2025.
Through the previous renewable 12-year CPPA signed last year, LyondellBasell will offtake 195 MW from TotalEnergies’ Cottonwood Bayou Solar plant, which has a capacity of 455 MW and a commercial start-up planned for the end of next year.
“TotalEnergies is proud to support LyondellBasell on its climate goals,” says TotalEnergies’ Vincent Stoquart. “The signing of these new upside sharing CPPAs in the United States is consistent with our strategy to take merchant exposure and will contribute to the objective of profitable growth for our integrated power business.”
The two CPPAs are indexed on merchant prices through an upside-sharing mechanism, under which the companies share any potential upside arising from increased market price over the contract term. They follow other CPPAs TotalEnergies signed with Amazon and Saint-Gobain in the U.S.
“We are taking decisive steps to reduce our scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and power purchase agreements are a critical lever towards meeting our targets”, says LyondellBasell’s Chris Cain. “These agreements with TotalEnergies help us accelerate the development of clean energy and shift to use low carbon energy at our sites.”
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TotalEnergies Signs with LyondellBasell to Supply 358 MW From Texas Farms
I saw an interview earlier today, in which a TV news journalist (I forget which one) predicted that the threat of communism is going to be the central theme of the Republican leading up to the midterm elections.
This makes sense, given that the target audience is largely unaware that:
In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy led this nation through a nightmarish effort to imprison anyone with any ties to communism. This is now regarded as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.
and
There are dozens of social democracies around the globe that offer the citizens extremely high qualities of life. The countries at the top of the World Happiness Rankings are, in order,
- Finland (Score: 7.764)
- Iceland (Score: 7.540)
- Denmark (Score: 7.539)
- Costa Rica (Score: 7.439)
- Sweden (Score: 7.255)
- Norway (Score: 7.242)
- The Netherlands (Score: 7.223)
Now, many MAGA folks can’t find Finland on a map of the world, but it’s that very level of ignorance that makes all this horsecrap work.
Trump is working hard to dismantling NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the largest collection of American scientists focusing on climate change. He proposed a budget cut of $1.7 billion, or about 27% for 2026. More to the point, he shut down NOAA’s website, that, formerly, gave everyone on Earth the ability to look at key climate-related data.
In response, those scientists, knowing that we can no longer trust the U.S. government for real climate science, have set up Climate.us.
More here, from NPR.
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